Our apostle here expostulates the case with the Corinthians, why they should at any time hearken to the false apostles, who, by relecting upon his person and ministry, made it needful for him to vindicate both from contempt and scorn. As if he had said, "What! do. need to begin again in this second... [ Continue Reading ]
Observe here, How the apostle encourages himself, from the experience he had of the present success of his ministry, to hope for the favour of farther and future success: SUCH TRUST or confidence have we, through the grace of Christ, of the constant efficacy of our ministry, that he will still own a... [ Continue Reading ]
Observe here, 1. How the apostle having made an apology and defence for himself and his ministry, against those that did calumniate him, in the former verses; in the verse before us he acknowledges his great inability for this work, and that his whole sufficiency of service was from God; and this wi... [ Continue Reading ]
Our apostle in this and the following verses, goes on with his comparison betwixt the law and the gospel, and shows the transcendency of the latter above the former. Where note, 1. He calls the law again. killing law, or. ministration of death; because it condemns men for the breach of it to tempor... [ Continue Reading ]
Observe here, 1. The different titles given to the law, and to the gospel; the former is called THE MINISTRATION OF CONDEMNATION, because it condemns men eternally for the violation of it; the latter is called THE MINISTRATION OF RIGHTEOUSNESS or justification, because it discovers to us the only wa... [ Continue Reading ]
Here the apostle draws an inference from the foregoing discourse; that seeing himself and the other apostles had such hope, that their ministry was thus glorious, such confidence and assurance of the perfection and perpetuity of their ministry, they did use great plainness, freedom, and boldness of... [ Continue Reading ]
As if he had said, Christ is that quickening and life-giving Spirit who takes away the veil from off our hearts; and where that Spirit, that all-glorious and all-powerful Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty; that is, clearness, and no more veil; freedom from the yoke of the legal administration,... [ Continue Reading ]
That is, we who live under the light, and enjoy the liberty of the gospel, with open face beholding as in. clear glass the glory of the Lord Jesus, as Moses did the glory of God in the mount, are by degrees changed into the same image with him, from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord... [ Continue Reading ]